The University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page is a great place to read free online books.
Questia is best known as a resource for writers and students, but the site also hosts a library featuring more than 5,000 free books that may be read online.
The Internet Public Library is a goodplace to access newspapers, magazines and reference works. Read Print is a free online library that was designed for teachers, students and readers of classic books. The Literature Network features thousands of free short stories, books and poems that you maybegin reading immediately.
The Classic Bookshelf is a nice place to read classic books online because of its easy readability program. PublicLiterature.org has a good selection of free classic books that may be read online in a free user-friendly interface.
The International Children's Digital Library Foundation provides access to online free books for children around the world. Perseus Digital Library of Tufts University is an evolving digital library featuring a wide range of materials and constantly updated with new content. Colorado State University Global responds quickly to information requests through this site. Southern New Hampshire University responds quickly to information requests through this site.
The rising cost of tuition gets a lot of press, but there many other necessary items that are climbing in price as well. Banned Books Week, held during the last week of September every year, celebrates the intellectual freedom to read.
Online calculators are a great way to save time, avoid errors and check any number crunching that you do by hand. Progressive Phonics is a wonderful reading program offering free alphabet and phonics books at beginner, intermediate, and advance levels. There are a few things about reading (specifically books) that have improved since the advent of the online electronic book, or ebook as it’s known today. Project Gutenberg is a great project that has brought many open literary works to digital print making it possible for anyone to read books for free online. These ebooks are totally free to read online or download but if you enjoy the resource and have the means, they accept donations.
The cool part about Google eBooks is that they aren’t necessarily stored on your computer or other devices but the ebooks are accessible from the cloud.
There are many more resources online where you can find ebooks for sale and websites where you can visit to read books online for free.
The Open Library (OpenLibrary.org) has an extensive library of well over a million electronic books available (precisely 1,191,271 titles available as I type this). With millions of free e-books available in a variety of formats that can be viewed on almost all modern computers, tablets and smart devices, there is no valid reason why we cannot be a more literate and educated society.
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There are currently over 25,000 books in its online catalog, with 100,000 more titles available from many partners and affiliates.
All of the books on this site are public domain and are formatted in XHTML, which means that text style and illustrations have been preserved. Users can open the free book of their choice and then decide how they'd like the screen to look. This free online library features nonfiction books on a wide range of topics, including business, art, computers, finance, health, history, gardening, home improvement, science, real estate, sports and travel. Books are available in many different languages and most of them feature user-submitted activities and other content that can be used in conjunction with the books.
This site lets readers choose classic and contemporary books, then the books will be sent out in installments via RSS feed or email.
These books are available in printable and downloadable formats along with handwriting and activity worksheets. For instance, the portability an electronic file brings rather than a paper book is huge, seeing as we are now able to carry hundreds of them on one computer or e-reader. Michael Hart, who created the concept of the electronic book, and therefore changing much of the way we receive text today, died September 6, 2011 at the age of 64.
With the help of many volunteers, they digitized the works of bone fide publishers that are now public domain. One warning to take notice of is that these books are free in the United States because their copyright have expired but for those outside the US, check the copyright laws in your own countries before downloading and distributing them.
This makes it simple to begin reading a book on one device and pick up where you left off on another. They have a huge and growing library of free online books comprising of genres like 18th and 19th century books, European and American fiction, myths and Science Fiction. The process is actually kind of interesting because if you are a library card holder, you just log on, choose the ebooks you want to borrow (just like the physical library), and check out. Many also offer audio books in a similar fashion so check out your local library’s website for more information. Remember that copyright free ebooks are legal to read for free online, and Project Gutenburg is doing a good job of digitising them! Of course remember that it is legal to read free books online as long as they are copyright free. Our living room and all of the bedrooms in my house have at least one wall covered by a filled bookshelf. While there is obviously some redundancy and overlap in titles between all of the resources, I have been downloading or viewing online countless free books from other resources including the Open Library, and the free libraries available from Amazon for its Kindle reader and Barnes & Noble for its Nook reader. Registration on the site is required for access, but registration is free and very easy; no personal information is required.
While those tablet-like digital devices are enormously popular, both Amazon and Barnes & Noble) offer a wide assortment of free apps (applications) for almost all computers and smart devices. Many websites, such as Open Library, also offer their collection of free titles in Kindle format. These free e-books are readily available, so take advantage of the knowledge and entertainment that they may provide. There are tons of online libraries that provide fiction, nonfiction and reference books at no charge.

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Book offerings include British literature, American literature, cookbooks, children's books, textbooks and reference books. Other site features include book summaries, author bios and links to further book-related content. Things readers can customize include page color, text color, print size, margin size and font. Reading categories include classics, comedy, children's, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays and sci fi. Biblomania provides study guides, literature articles and a whole range of resources for students to go along with these works. Since the site does not require a password, teachers can assign a book to read at home by directly emailing or sharing the specific URL of the book with parents.
Also, the production of books in its online or electronic form is a lot cheaper when you think about the fact that ebooks don’t have to be printed.
Most libraries attach a digital time limit making the borrowed book useless once your time limit is up. They provide a nice option when time is of the essence or when you just want to be entertained by creative voice overs, sound effects, and music that sometimes accompany them. All of my children were brought up with a love of books and reading, a love that has been passed on to their children.
The Open Library offers much more than just free books, it also offers other interesting services to its members.
On my Android smartphone and all of my PCs, I have downloaded and installed (free) both the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook apps.
On a regular basis, I purchase books for myself and my family from the local bookstores, as well as online sources such as Amazon and Better World Books (my personal favorite). While I can purchase millions of titles with either the Kindle or Nook apps, it is worthwhile to know that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble offer a large library of free books and other publications for download. For the past few years, I have been supplementing my physical book purchases with digital book purchases, purchasing titles that can be read on my computers or smartphone. Clicking on the title opened the menu displaying the available options for this particular book.
As I type this, I currently have about 100 free books already downloaded to my smartphone, an available personable library to keep me occupied and entertained for many hours. Being somewhat ethnocentric, I selected the third edition published in English in 1804, rather than the second edition published in Italian in 1800. One helpful feature was a speaker icon on the top-right corner of the display, which would read each page using a computerized speech synthesis, much like a traditional audio book.